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The enemy is both weak enough to crush, and strong enough to destroy us.
Immigrants are lazy freeloaders, and stealing our jobs.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
I mean, there are some opposing philosophical beliefs that can hold true at the same time. For example, we are all different and we are all the same can work. However, these people are holding objective opposing beliefs as true at the same time. Something is up with their ability to differentiate between concrete and abstract concepts.
Trying to defeat these people with arguments is futile. They have checked out from reality long ago.
"Trying to defeat these people with arguments is futile"
ding ding ding. so what do we defeat them with then?
Nobody wants to admit it -- least of all, enlightened-centrist Democrats -- but the historical answer is "weapons."
Yes, but that’s history. For some time we have this thing called modern democracy.
The democracy in the US during WWII was hardly any less "modern" than it is now, yet we still justly put down NAZIs like the rabid dogs they are.
That’s because there was no democracy in Germany at the time.
Modern democracy is just deciding who is threatened with the weapons. The state is an instrument of force.
By getting the sane people to vote
Sane media.
how do you propose that we get rid of right wing media?
They don't. They don't even bother to rationalize. When forced to think about the bullshit they spew they just claim they haven't finished researching it and then repeat themselves despite admitting they know nothing and have no response to any evidence.
Ah, the age-old quote:
― Jean-Paul Sartre
Trolling... Trolling never changes